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Re: Judge throws out George Zimmerman's libel suit against NBC

Am I the only one who's noticed that many of the people wailing about this judges decision are the same people who point to a judge's decision to argue that Zimmerman was not guilty of committing any crime?

Originally Posted by Mycroft

I don't have any issue with any investigation.

Originally Posted by jaeger19

the vast majority of folks that need healthcare are on Medicare.. both rich and poor..

Re: Judge throws out George Zimmerman's libel suit against NBC

A Sanford judge today put an end to George Zimmerman's libel suit against NBC Universal.

Circuit Judge Debra S. Nelson ruled that the former Neighborhood Watch volunteer is entitled to no money from the media giant.

She issued a summary judgment in the network's favor, meaning that unless an appeals court reverses her, the case is now dead.

[...]

"Zimmerman and his family had received death threats and had gone into hiding long before any of the challenged broadcasts," she wrote.

Zimmerman had made himself more difficult to defame, the judge wrote, because he had voluntarily made himself a public figure long before the shooting. In 2010, when the Sanford Police Department refused for weeks to arrest the son of a white police officer who had punched and broken the nose of a homeless black man, Zimmerman publicly protested.

That was an example, Nelson wrote, of Zimmerman "voluntarily injecting his views into the public controversy surrounding race relations and public safety in Sanford."

I hope the Zimmermam appeals this and wins.What NBC did was deliberate and vicious.

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear"

Re: Judge throws out George Zimmerman's libel suit against NBC

A Sanford judge today put an end to George Zimmerman's libel suit against NBC Universal.

Circuit Judge Debra S. Nelson ruled that the former Neighborhood Watch volunteer is entitled to no money from the media giant.

She issued a summary judgment in the network's favor, meaning that unless an appeals court reverses her, the case is now dead.

[...]

"Zimmerman and his family had received death threats and had gone into hiding long before any of the challenged broadcasts," she wrote.

Zimmerman had made himself more difficult to defame, the judge wrote, because he had voluntarily made himself a public figure long before the shooting. In 2010, when the Sanford Police Department refused for weeks to arrest the son of a white police officer who had punched and broken the nose of a homeless black man, Zimmerman publicly protested.

That was an example, Nelson wrote, of Zimmerman "voluntarily injecting his views into the public controversy surrounding race relations and public safety in Sanford."

But then, I think there is some discussion to be done here. I have to disagree that Zimmerman 'made himself' a public figure. It was Holder that brought him into the limelight, and like most naïve innocent people who have been accused, he chose to cooperate with authorities and also to try to make amends with the Martin family. Of course this was all public. But, IMO, I don't agree that it made him a 'public figure' for the purpose of denying him the right not to be defamed by the media.

Re: Judge throws out George Zimmerman's libel suit against NBC

Moderator's Warning:

Before this thread gets derailed I just want to let people know that this thread is NOT about the Zimmerman/Trayvon case. This thread is about Zimmermans libel suit. If it goes into the other case you will be infracted and booted from the thread.

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Re: Judge throws out George Zimmerman's libel suit against NBC

Originally Posted by Maenad

Part of me wants to say, 'Oh NO, not ANOTHER Zimmerman thread.'

But then, I think there is some discussion to be done here. I have to disagree that Zimmerman 'made himself' a public figure. It was Holder that brought him into the limelight, and like most naïve innocent people who have been accused, he chose to cooperate with authorities and also to try to make amends with the Martin family. Of course this was all public. But, IMO, I don't agree that it made him a 'public figure' for the purpose of denying him the right not to be defamed by the media.

As I see it; I think it odd that the media can turn him into a public figure and then claim immunity because of it.

Re: Judge throws out George Zimmerman's libel suit against NBC

Originally Posted by sangha

Am I the only one who's noticed that many of the people wailing about this judges decision are the same people who point to a judge's decision to argue that Zimmerman was not guilty of committing any crime?

Z's a protected class now. Can't say anything about him without incurring the wrath of certain posters.